This edition brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her most famous work, and the earlier text A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), her first formulation of a wide-ranging moral and political critique of her times.
Strongly autobiographical, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman powerfully complement Wollstonecraft's non-fictional writing, inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed.
"The appendices alone provide material for an entire course, linking [the text] to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship." -- Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote these two novellas at the beginning and end of her years of writing and political activism. Though written at different times,... Læs mere
For many years the victim of smear campaigns by notable male writers, and dismissed as being merely 'the mother of Mary... Læs mere
First published in 1787, this book provocatively challenged eighteenth-century attitudes... Læs mere
These twenty-five letters, published in 1796, describe Mary Wollstonecraft's audacious trip to Scandinavia to retrieve a stolen ship... Læs mere
In this passionate reaction to Rousseau's pedagogical work Emile (1762) Wollstonecraft powerfully defends woman's... Læs mere
In the first printed response to Edmund Burke's attacks on the principles... Læs mere